Cai Ruichen, who arrived at the villa, nodded and greeted Hawking, his eyes were attracted by a bald man next to Hawking.

"Welcome to Dr. Cai, I am Milner." The bald man stepped forward, extended his right hand towards Cai Ruichen, and said hello.

"Mr. Milner, I have heard of the name for a long time." Cai Ruichen came forward naturally and shook his hand.

At this time, another car stopped at the door of the villa, and a young man who was less than 30 years old got out of the car. This young man was a little surprised when he saw Cai Ruichen.

"Dr. Cai, it's nice to meet you here." Zuckerberg got out of the car and walked directly towards Cai Ruichen.

Seeing Zuckerberg, Cai Ruichen also finally determined Hawking's purpose for inviting himself here.

Just a few days ago, Minar and Hawking jointly released a plan called Breakthrough Exploration, with an estimated investment of 100 million U.S. dollars to detect the Alpha star in the Centaur constellation closest to the solar system to see if there is a planet with life or civilization. .

Cai Ruichen has also paid attention to this plan. Through the content released by Milner and Hawking, the entire plan will use the launch of thousands of camera satellites with a mass of a few grams or tens of grams to the Alpha Galaxy.

All satellites will use optical reflections as thrust and are expected to reach one-fifth the speed of light, but the distance to Alpha, the neighboring star, is 4.2 light-years. That is to say, even if it is one-fifth the speed of light, it takes at least one to reach Alpha. Twenty-one years.

And even if accidents and dangers can be avoided, a satellite will arrive at Alpha and the photos will be taken at the same time, and it will take four years to send it back.

The results of the whole plan can be seen as soon as possible, and it will be 25 years later. However, Cai Ruichen is still quite interested in such a plan.

Zuckerberg also participated in this plan, and also joined the board of this plan, plus Hawking and Milner. The three key figures of this plan. It's all here.

After everyone greeted briefly, they soon entered the villa, and the arranged dinner began immediately.

This surprised Cai Ruichen, because these three people were on a planned board of directors. There was no fifth person on the scene, that is to say. It was these three people who invited themselves alone.

If this is replaced by the previous Cai Ruichen, it will definitely be an overwhelming sense of vanity. Take a picture and post it on the Internet. You can become a world celebrity in an instant.

The three people who are dining with him now are not small people. Don't talk about Hawking.

Zuckerberg was once the world's youngest richest man, one of the co-founders of Facebook, the scenery of the year. No less than Cai Ruichen now.

Young people are also super wealthy people with a net worth of over ten billion dollars. And they got married only recently, otherwise they would be able to compare with Cai Ruichen's status as the fifth king of diamonds.

Milner is relatively little known to the outside world. But in Russia and the United States, it is quite well-known, an investor who is keen on space exploration, and a rich man.

Milner has also carried out a number of space exploration projects so far, all of which are long-term projects. The investment in each project is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are all non-profit investments.

To put it bluntly, this kind of investment is purely relying on imagination to pour money in to satisfy one's curiosity.

And Milner's large amount of investment is also in this area, which is one of the reasons why Milner is famous. After all, such investors are not purely for making money, and there are really not many in this world.

With these people, Cai Ruichen was also very relaxed. There was no money at all in today's party, it was all interests and feelings.

Therefore, Cai Ruichen is also very open. After studying with the base in the past few years, he is not afraid to show his feet, and all kinds of academic discussions are completely calm.

Soon, the four people began to get together, discussing many future related academic issues together.

And all the questions are all around this aspect of the space domain.

When it comes to this topic, it naturally begins to shift to the breakthrough exploration plan released a few days ago.

At present, this plan has just begun, the funds have not yet been in place, and the research and development of small satellites has not yet officially started.

I specially invited Cai Ruichen over. Of course, it is impossible to come here for academic discussion. Milner began to say: "I don't know if Dr. Cai is willing to join this project."

Milner is a very direct person, and he invites as soon as he opens his mouth.

Cai Ruichen did not refuse this. After all, for such a plan, there was no benefit at all during the period. It was only because of interest that everyone could come together, which was another exploration of the mysteries of the universe.

For mankind, such an exploration plan will be very beneficial in the future.

"I can provide the necessary help in terms of funds and technology. As for joining, I am afraid I don't have this time." Cai Ruichen accepted the invitation. As for him, it is impossible for him to have time to participate in such a plan in person.

It is impossible for Hawking to have an expression on his face, and both Milner and Zuckerberg have a little disappointment on their faces.

At this time, Cai Ruichen continued: "Although I can't participate personally, there are still many researchers in this area in our company. I believe their participation will be more effective than mine."

The disappointed face was immediately replaced by surprise, both Milner and Zuckerberg were very happy.

With the participation of the uncrowned king of the future technology group in the high-tech field ~lightnovelpub.net~, the success rate of the entire plan will be greatly improved.

The most important thing is that the Future Technology Group is still very rich, and there is no need to worry about this plan not going on in the future.

It only needs Cai Ruichen to agree, and everything else is easy to handle.

"I believe that with the participation of Future Technology Group, this plan will surely be more fruitful and successful." Milner said with great joy.

Although he is the main investor in this plan and successfully reached a cooperation with Hawking, there is no comparison between the two companies with the strong technological strength of the Future Technology Group. With Cai Ruichen's support, he feels that he is incomparable. Lucky.

"At present, there is only one problem surrounding this plan, and that is the research and development of micro-satellites. As far as current technology is concerned, it is still difficult for such satellites to be successfully developed."

Zuckerberg simply and directly stated the key direction of the current plan, and the purpose is also very simple. I hope that Cai Ruichen can be willing to undertake the research and development and production of such miniaturized satellites. (To be continued.):